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Containing the Data of all Important Events in the 
History of the Petroleum Region; Daily Market 
Quotations; Daily Average Production, and 
Tables of Field Developments; Runs, 
Shipments, Exports, Stocks, Etc. 



COMPILED BY 

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SECOND EDITION. 


OIL CITY, PA.: 
Dekkick Publishing Com 
1885. 




































Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1885, by Derrick 
Publishing Company, In the office of the Librarian 
of Congress, at Washington. 





The Derrick’s 

Hand-Book of Petroleum, 

FOR THE YEAR ENDING DEC, 31, 1884. 


The beginning of the year 1884 found the oil regions prosperous ; 
producers receiving a price for their oil which gave them a good pro¬ 
fit; no new fields threatening an increase in production, and opera¬ 
tions confined to the old districts where small wells were certain of 
being found, where the chances ot loss were small, where operating 
was cheap, and where the wells would, at the prevailing prices, pay 
for themselves in eighteen months to two years. 

The outlook was bright. Producing property commanded a high 
price. Producers who Lad been struggling along under a load of 
debt for years had cleared themselves of their obligations during 
the high prices of 1883, and with the beginning of 1884 found them¬ 
selves out of debt, and with a small bank balance. Their old wells 
were now small, but what was obtained from them was mostly pro¬ 
fit. The average production per well for the whole oil region was 
not above three barrels, but oil commanded over a dollar a barrel, 
and without debts the producer was prosperous. He could see no 
threatening disaster for the year. There were no warning signs of 
panics, and no probability of new and prolific districts being opened. 

A producer can never be idle, and it is contrary to his nature to 
let his capital be so. For years he had labored on borrowed capital. 
Credit was his support, and the endeavor to keep that was a con¬ 
stant incentive to activity. So that when 1883 left him without 
notes to meet or be renewed, and with some money, he plunged 
hastily into fresh activities. We say nothing of what the producer 
may have lost by leaving his legitimate business, for that of specula¬ 
tion. He lost money by this. But in the field he paid good prices 
for small well territory, prices based on better than a dollar market. 
He drilled property which for years had been left untouched because 
the wells found there were too small to be remunerative at prices 
below a dollar. In a few nionths he had put large sums of money 
into this small well territory, or had paid high prices for old and 
small wells, and again found himself in debt with many small wells 



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on his hands, which had added to his daily expenses. With the 
continuance of a dollar market he saw the way clear to meet his 
notes at three, six, nine, twelve and eighteen months, and being 
firm in the belief that the good prices would continue, he directed 
his actions accordingly. 

In May the panic came. Oil values fell forty cents on a dollar. 
The producer’s thousand barrels of oil were worth $400 less than be 
had based his calculations on. He found himself again in the same 
old rut of low prices and debts, except that the output from his 
producing property was much smaller than when before he had been 
placed in a similar condition. 

To further illustrate this point we give in the following tables 
the amount of money which would have been received each month 
for the last seven years by the producers, if the amount run by the 
pipe lines had been sold at the average price for each month : 


1878. 1879. 1880. 


January. $1,493,246 $1,452,716 $2,295,967 

February. 1,845,109 1,176,782 1,862,890 

March. 2,029,371 1,308,896 1,857,001 

April. 1,709,216 1,189^53 1,566,189 

May. 1,640,717 1,241,663 1,452,953 

June. 1,359,712 1,111,852 2,111,180 

July. 1,361,838 1,131,227 1,927,830 

August. 1,318,707 1,232,995 1,953,443 

September. 1,146,242 1,321,678 1,945,405 

October. 1,182,506 1,646,315 2,094,316 

November. 1,240,563 1,842,860 1,855,592 

December. 1,085,883 2,419,853 2,022,384 


Total. $17,413,110 $17,076,390 $22,945,150 


1881. 1882. 1883. 1884. 

January.$1,922,949 $1,851,081 $1,810,938 $2,031,773 

February. 1,768,173 1,988,424 1,853,218 2,037,675 

March . 1,997,065 2,102,513 1,954,100 2,046,889 

April . 2,138,302 1,916,588 2,003,548 1,758.515 

May. 2,108,566 1,897,066 2,136,657 1,762,556 

June. 2,178,469 1,504,486 2,475,466 1,379,136 

July. 2,057,144 1,856,023 2,395,590 1,314,376 

August. 2,231,061 2,043,019 2,319,056 1,688,362 

September. 2,322,113 2,132,861 2,235,486 1,570,641 

October. 2,525,093 2,474,540 2,478,179 1,400,406 

November. 1,873,033 2,510,925 2,^45,777 1,345,537 

December. 2,110,988 2,070,996 2,276,871 1,430,894 


Total .$25,232,956 $24,348,522 $26,184,886 $19,766,760 


Thus, in 1884, the producers received $6,418,126 less for their 
product than in 1883, and a smaller amount than for any year since 
1879. 











































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Throughout the whole of 1884 this condition of affairs continued, 
and the producer struggled along with a decreased production at a 
low value. There were no Bradford or Allegany fields, with their 
rich deposits of petroleum, giving certain success in striking oil, and 
cheap operating with unlimited credit, where he could decrease the 
average cost of his product and increase his output. There was only 
the rich hut uncertain territory of Thorn Creek, and a greater part of 
that was held by large companies, or at extravagant prices. He 
could only wait and hope, and the end of the year finds him still 
waiting and hoping. 

In the early part of 1884 some of the large companies proposed to 
check the production by a cessation of drilling. The movement 
slowly progressed until, in September, it was declared to have gone 
into effect. Previous to this, as early as May, some firms had stopped 
the drill, and the movement steadily gained strength up to Septem¬ 
ber. Butler County operators refused to join it, but elsewhere (except 
in Wardwell, where permission was given to drill.) there was almost 
a complete cessation of work This movement has been severely 
criticised by many, and it is claimed was not a success. How 
true these criticisms were can best be told after the first half of 
1885, when any increase in operations or in production in the dis¬ 
tricts where the shut down movement was in effect, will indicate 
what would have been done in 1884 had there been no suspension of 
drilling. 

If a decrease of operations in the districts where the shut-down 
movement was in effect from 743 in June, 1884, to 101 in December, 
1884;, if a decrease of 10,000 barrels in the daily production of these 
same districts in that time; and if a decrease in the new production 
of these districts from 3,485 barrels June 1st, 1884, to 207 barrels 
January 1st, 1885, were not the results of the shut-down movement, 
then it was not a success. 

A growth of the shut-down movement was the producing com¬ 
pany known as the Associated Producers, a company which com¬ 
prises most of the leading producers of the oil regions, and which, 
organized only a few months ago, has already a production of over 
2,000 barrels a day. 

In April the National Transit Company purchased the United 
Pipe Lines, and through this purchase added a million and a half 
barrels of oil to the stocks. The result of the purchase was practi¬ 
cally the consolidation of the oil region pipe lines, with the lines to 
the seaboard. 

By no previous panic in New York was the oil market affected so 
seriously as by that of 1884. The prominence of the New York 
Petroleum Exchanges, and the heavy speculation in petroleum in 
Wall street, gave a direct connection between the money centre of 
the country and the oil regions, which caused the latter to suffer as 
severely in the depreciation of the values of its properties as if the 
panic had occurred here. The only difference was that in the oil 
country the failures were few and small, and included no producers 
nor oil companies. 




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BRIEF SUMMARY. 

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A brief summary of the oil business iu 1884 is given below: 


Total pipe line runs, barrels. 23,596,945 

Total shipments from the oil regions.25,053,902 

Increase shipments over runs. 1,456,957 

Total shipments, barrels. 25,053,902 

Total exports, crude equivalent. 15,661,086 

Increase shipments over exports. 9,392,816 

Total stocks January 1, 1884. 35,715,565 

“ “ January 1, 1885. 36,872,892 

Increase. 1,157,327 


In the stocks for January 1, 1885, is included 1,558,665 barrels 
added to the stocks when the United Lines were transferred to the 
National Transit. If we take this amount from the stocks January 


1, 1885, the result would be as follows : 

Stocks January 1, 1884. 35,715,565 

Stocks January 1, 1885. 35,314,227 


Decrease in stocks. 401,358 

Outstanding certificates January 1, 1884. 28,603,136 

“ “ “ 1, 1885. 28,181,375 

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Decrease. 431,761 

From the figures we have at hand, the following table represents 
the stocks in the seven principal continental ports and London and 
Liverpool, on the dates given, in barrels refined: 

January 1, 1884. 2,093,501 

“ 1, 1885. 1,470,920 


Decrease. 622,581 


This decrease of 622,581 barrels refined is equal to 1,007,988 bar¬ 
rels crude equivalent. As the exports were 15,661,086 barrels crude 
equivalent, the total foreign demand (without taking into account 
the increase or decrease at other ports) may be safely estimated at 
16,669,074 barrels crude equivalent, or 45,543 barrels per day of crude. 






























PETROLEUM CHRONOLOGY FOR 1884, 


January 1st—Reed No. 4, at Wardwell, supposed to be a dry hole, 
comes in a small well.4th. Cold weather interferes with opera¬ 
tions.8th. McKinney & Co.’s No. 3, at Henry’s Mills, is drilled 

into the sand and begins flowing, making 200 barrels in sixteen 

hours and 725 in thirty-one hours.10th. Harding &Co. ’s mystery, 

lot 27, South Alma, is shot and shows small.12th. Dale & Smul- 

len strike a thousand barrel well at Cranberry.13th. McKinney 

well drilled deeper and production increased to 1,000 barrels a day. 

.14th. Kline & Co.’s well, 591, Cherry Grove, shutdown, with 

small showing of oil.15th. Shank & Emery’s well, 438, Henry’s 

Mills, makes 12 barrels first hour.16th. The McKinney well mak¬ 
ing 440 barrels a day.28tli. The McKinney well is drilled deeper 

and makes 1,525 barrels first twenty-four hours afterwards.31st. 

There is considerable activity at Henry’s Mills. 

February 1st.—Grandin No. 19, Balltown, is in the sand; a small 

well.2d. McCalmont Oil Co.’s No. 1, Henry’s Mills, starts large 

and makes 1,000 barrels in thirty-one hours.3d. Balltown, No. 

17, makes 185 barrels in four hours.4th. H. B. Porter’s No. 5, 

at Henry’s Mills, starts at 75 barrels an hour, and makes 700 barrels 
in twenty-four hours.7th. The following is a record of the pro¬ 

duction at the dates given of an oil company’s wells on the Cooper 
tract: 

BARRELS. 

September 21, 1883, seven wells were producing. 1,074 

October 21, 1883, nine wells were producing. 589 

November 21, 1883, ten wells were producing. 353 

December 21, 1883, twelve wells were producing. 225 

January 21, 1884, twelve wells were producing. 190 

.11th. Production of Cranberry field (Egypt) 1,000 barrels a 

day.14th. Porter’s well, at Henry’s Mills, torpedoed, and makes 

100 barrels the first hour, and 75 barrels the second hour.15th. 

The Porter well is making 30 barrels an hour.16th. Grandin No. 

20, Balltown, starts at 35 barrels an hour, and makes 300 barrels in 

thirty-six hours.17th. McCalmont Oil Co.’s No. 2, Henry’s 

Mills, is small.21st. Porter No. 8 good for 400 barrels first day; 

McCalmont No. 7 is a light well.22d. McCalmont Oil Co.’s No. 

7, Henry’s Mills, is drilled deeper, and makes 550 barrels in two 
days. Public notice of transfer of United Lines to National Transit 

Co.25th. McKinney’s No. 4 starts at 45 barrels an hour, and 30 

barrels second hour.27th. McKinney No. 9 starts at 27 barrels 

an hour; McCalmont No. 6 starts at 37 barrels.28th. Shank & 

Emery’s No. 9, Henry’s Mills, makes 240barrels in eleven hours, and 
Porter’s No. 10 starts at 26 barrels an hour. 































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March 4th. Henry’s Mills production, 1,900 barrels.5tli. 

Dimick’s wildcat venture lot 152, McKean County, interests the trade: 

the well proves a failure.6th. Grandin 21, Balltown, shows 

small, but is increased by deeper drilling to 20 barrels an hour. 

7th. Wesley Chambers’ well, north of Wardwell, makes a small 

flow and is shut down.10th. The Garvey well, Macksburg, makes 

24 barrels a day. The Conference of Oil Exchanges held in Oil City, 
and a committee appointed to obtain information pertaining to the 

transfer of the United Pipe Lines to the National Transit Co.13th. 

J. M. Clapp’s well, south of Cooper, strikes the sand late at night; 
makes 60 barrels first half hour, 217 barrels in three hours, and 1,055 

barrels in the first twenty-four hours.14th. Wesley Chambers' 

well, north of Wardwell, opened and makes 250 barrels in twenty-four 

hours.20th. J. M. Clapp’s well is making 130 barrels a day.* 

21st. False rumors circulated concerning wells in South Alma, Wirt 

and Macksburg.23d. O’Connor & Johnson mystify a well on lot 

62, Willing.27th. Garvey’s well, at Macksburg, shot, and cas¬ 
ing collapsed.31st. The Garvey well makes 25 barrels. 

April 2d. Grandin 22, Balltown, gets sand and is a light pro¬ 
ducer.3d. Mills & Mullen’s and Lang’s wells, at Macksburg, 

shut down, and rumors afloat that they will be large.7th. False 

reports are circulated that the Lang well had broken loose and flowed. 

.11th. There are rumors afloat, which are denied, that the Union 

Oil Company has purchased the Mills & Mullen and the Lang wells 

to prevent a flood of oil from them.14th. Grandin 23, Balltown, 

strikes sand and makes a good showing. The Lang well made a 
40 barrel flow when the stop cocks were turned; oue plug out of the 

Mills & Mullen well, and the oil is boiling over the casing.15th. 

Grandin 23 makes 136 barrels in twenty-four hours. The scouts 

leave Warren to watch the Macksburg wells.16th. Drilling on 

plugs at the Mills & Mullen well. A lack of certificates bulls the 

market.17th. All interest centres in Macksburg, where the Lang 

and the Mills and Mullen wells are being opened.18th. One plug 

blown out of the Mills & Mullen well and it makes five small flows 

in five hours.19th. The Lang well is torpedoed, and makes 125 

barrels in twenty-four hours. Shidemantle No. 6, Baldridge, starts 

at a 600 barrel rate.21st. The Pittsburgh Petroleum Exchange 

opened.23d. The Macksburg manipulators disappointed because 

the oil men refuse to come there in large numbers. The producers 

hold a shut-down meeting at Bradford.23d. The plugs are drilled 

out of the Mills & Mullen well, but it makes no flow.26th. The 

Anchor Oil Company completes a dry hole near the Chambers well, 
Wardwell. Mills & Mullen well is shot, and making a poor show¬ 
ing.28th. Producers meet in New York to organize the shut¬ 
down movement.30th. The producers’ meeting agrees to a plan 

for the suspension of the drill. The second shot is put in the Mills 
& Mullen well, and the hole bridged over. 

May 2d. The Mills & Mullen well is tubed and is showing for a 

40 barrel well.3d. The Union Oil Co.’s No 14, Wardwell, starts 

at 32 barrels an hour, and makes 320 barrels first day.5th. J. A. 

Gartlan’s well, Wardwell, strikes top of sand and is shut down. 


•Tills well, in January, 1885, was making 60 barrels a day. 


































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8th. Gartlan drills twenty minutes at his well and it Hows for 

fifteen minutes.9th. Gartlan well opened this morning, and it 

makes 1,098 barrels in twenty-four hours, besides considerable being- 

lost.12th. The Gartlan well is making 30 barrels an hour 

Operations in the vicinity of this well are active, and the Wardwell 

excitement properly begins.13th. Reports of failures in New 

York. The panic begins, and the Oil Exchanges are scenes of wild 
excitement The market which opened at 91] cents, closes at 83], 

having been down to 81 cents.15th. Panic continues; market 

opens at 82, goes up to 85g down to 764, and closes at 77]. Tuna 

Valley Bank, Bradford, closes its doors.16th. Oil Exchange rule 

for a continuous session from 10 a. in. to 3 p.m., goes into effect. 
Highest point of market 79 cents, lowest 65], closed at 77|. Ex¬ 
change Bank, Bradford, closes.17th. Lowest price of oil 75], 

highest 81f, closed 81f.21st. The Penn Bank of Pittsburgh, 

closes its doors. False reports circulated of failures all over the 

country.22d. O. Hoffman’s well, lot 461, west of Stoueham, 

strikes sand and is reported large ; it is shut down and plugged. 

23d. Galloway well near Gartlan, comes in dry. The Penn Bank 

opens its doors again.26th. Weible’s well makes a small flow 

top of sand. Penn Bank closes its doors finally.27tli. Weible’s 

well majces a small flow top of sand ; is shut down. 

June 1st. Weible well opened and makes 1,102 barrels first day. 

.Shut-down movement is worked up.3d. Anchor No. 2, east of 

Gartlan, is dry.7th. Pittsburgh Banks refuse to loan money 

on oil certificates.Stocks depressed, and daily rumors of failures. 

.14th. Exchange committees ask the National Transit Co. to 

reduce rates of storage, which is refused.17th. Denman well, at 

Macksburg, shot, and is small.20th. Shirley & Hackett get a 

large well at Wardwell.Emery & Agnew’s wells, Balltown, tract 

3,195, starts off at 200 barrels.21st. False rumors circulated of 

prominent New York, Pittsburgh and Oil Region men being in finan¬ 
cial difficulties.24th. Reports circulated that Beecher & Co.’s 

well, lot 739, Cherry Grove, is showing oil; reports are false.25th. 

St. Petersburg Bank closes its doors.28th. Armstrong & Co.’s 

No. 1, Marshall tract, Thorn Creek, Butler County, makes a flow' of 
oil and the rig is burned This was the initial producer of the Thorn 
Creek district. Immediately after this Phillips began work on his 
No. 1, on the Bartley farm, north of the Armstrong well, which 
struck the sand the latter part of August, and proved to be a gusher. 

.30th. Hays & Gartlan well, Wardwell, drilled into sand and 

makes 100 barrels an hour. 

July 1st. Hays & Gartlan well at Wardwell, makes 1,220 barrels 

first day.3d. Denman well, Macksburg, burned, and three men 

seriously injured.6th. False reports circulated that Syndicate 

well at Macksburg, is making 500 barrels a day.10th. Grace well, 

at Wardwell, shut down top of sand.11th. Grace’s well at Ward- 

well starts off at 200 barrel in three hours. Agnew' & Emery get 
another good well on 3,195, Balltown.12th. Considerable dis¬ 

cussion on the subject of short selling,- and efforts are being made to 

check it.14th. Ward well’s daily production is 3,361 barrels from 

sixty-three wells.15th. Hoffman well on 461, which has been 


































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shut down a long time, opened and started at 50 barrels a day. From 
this time for several weeks, wells are completed daily in the Ward- 

well district, which start off from 500 to 1,000 barrels each.20th. 

Grandin 27, at Balltown, making 200 barrels a day.21st. Hays 

& Gartlan’s No. 3, Wardwell, starts at 130 barrels an hour.22d. 

Barnsdall & Co.’s well, across the river at Wardwell, is making 100 

barrels a day.24th. Picket No. 3, making 100 barrels an hour. 

.27th. Ward well’s production 9,895 barrels.28th. There is 

drainage at Wardwell.30th. Nitro-glycerine being used freely at 

Wardwell. 

August 4th. Ward well’s production, 9,500 barrels.5th. Ward- 

well’s production, 9,800 barrels. Book & Gartlan’s well, across the 

river at Wardwell, starts at 16 barrels an hour.6th. Wardwell’s 

production, 9,200. Pickett No. 3 making 1,200 barrels a day.7tli. 

Exaggerated reports circulated concerning salt water in the Ward- 
well field. In the belief that Wardwell has seen its height, and the 
feeling of confidence in the success of the shut-down movement 
causes an advance which culminates in the early part of September 

with the reports from the Phillips’ gusher at Thorn Creek.8th. 

Wardwell’s production 10,210 barrels.Barnsdall’s well, near Hoff¬ 
man, is the important well of the field now.14th. The Barnsdall 

well is plugged and fiowing at the rate of 162 barrels in sixteen hours. 

.15th. The plugs are out of the Barnsdall well and it makes 250 

barrels a day.21st. Producers meet at Bradford to consider the 

shut-down movement and pass resolutions declaring it a success; and 

also talk about $2.00 oil in the future.22d. Wardwell field is 

losing its interest.28th. Some of the Wardwell wells stop pro 

ducing.29th. Phillips’ No. 1, Thorn Creek, has four bits in sand, 

and owners think it is small.31st. Attempt to scare trade with 

Story & Adams’ wildcat on 502; it proves to be dry. Phillips well, 
Thorn Creek, reported at 400 barrels a day. 

September 1st. Phillips Bros, well, at Thorn Creek, makes 325 

barrels in twenty-five and one-half hours.2d. Drilling all day at 

Phillips’ well without improvement; making 300 barrels a day. 

3d. Phillips well strikes lower pay streak, and makes 225 barrels in 

three hours. The trade slow to believe in it.4th. Phillips 

well making 1,300 barrels a day. Anchor Oil Company completes a 

dry hole on lot 460, Wardwell.5th. Phillips well holding up, 

and the scouts and operators who have been watching the Wardwell 

field are packing their valises, and buying tickets for Butler.6th. 

The Phillips well was drilled deeper and improved to 1,500 barrels a 
day, and in some hours it made 80 barrels an hour. In consequence 
the market became demoralized, and those who had bought on the 
strength of the decline at Wardwell, and the shut-down movement, 

hastened to let their oil go. The market declines 8 cents.9tli. 

False report of an oil well at Freeport.10th. Phillips well still 

holding at 65 barrels an hour, and flowing by heads. It flows quiet¬ 
ly and without much gas. Twenty-four wells at Wardwell stop pro¬ 
ducing.11th. Phillips drilled thirty-five minutes and makes 85 

barrels an hour, and still Mr. Phillips says the pay streak has not 

been struck.12th. Phillips well making 82 barrels an hour. 

18th. Phillips drilled forty-five minutes without improvement. 
































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21st. Phillips drilled deeper, and runs up to 140 barrels an hour. 

.22d. Phillips well making 125 barrels an hour.24th. Phillips 

well drilled deeper and increased to 150 barrels for one hour, from 
which it declines to 120 barrels an hour. Associated Producers Oil 

Company formed.31st. Butler producers “Rezoloot” against 

mysteries. 

October 1st. The Johnson well at Thorn Creek, is a mystery, and 
the fieldmen camp under the trees to watch it. All other fields are 
deserted for this new one, and a crowd of nearly one hundred people 

is constantly watching the wells.4tli. The fieldmen report the 

Johnson well dry in advance of the same information from the owners. 

.8th. Johnson well opened to the public, and is a failure, except 

fora small daily production from the one hundred foot sand. Opera¬ 
tions are active. Half royalty and $2,500 paid for five acre leases 

near Phillips well. The latter is making 112 barrels an hour. 

12th. Christie Bros.’ No. 1, Thorn Creek, four hundred feet from 
Phillips well, strikes sand and makes 1,442 barrels the first day. It 

was supposed to be small in the forenoon.13. The Christie well 

drilled deeper, and makes nearly 300 barrels an hour, the increase 

coming after market hours.14th. Christie making 253 barrels an 

hour... .17th. Fisher No. 10 in the sand, and showing small. 

18tli. Phillips No. 3 gets good sand, but shows drainage. Conners 
& Fishel No. 1, four hundred and fifty feet from Phillips well, starts 

at 60 barrels an hour.20th. A boom in the market on account 

of the Phillips well showing drainage.21st. Phillips No. 2 makes 

130 barrels an hour on reaching the lower pay streak.23d. Fishel 

& Conners well making 165 barrels an hour.24th. Armstrong & 

Co.’s No. 2, located five hundred feet from Phillips No. 1, is nearly 

through the sand, with no show of oil, and is reported dry.26th. 

Armstrong drilled through the sand; no show of oil. McBride well, 

on Henderson farm, is dry.27th. Those who stood at the brick 

school-house and telegraph offices in the Thorn Creek district to-day, 
and saw the Semple, Boyd & Armstrong No. 2 torpedoed, gazed upon 
the grandest scene ever witnessed in oildom. When the shot took 
effect, and the barren rock, as if smitten by the rod of Moses, poured 
forth its torrent of oil, it was such a magnificent and awful spectacle 
that only a painter’s brush or a poet’s pencil could do it justice. 
Men familiar with the wonderful sights of the oil coun'. ry were struck 
dumb with astonishment as they gazed upon this mighty display of 
nature’s forces. There was no sudden reaction after the torpedo was 
exploded. A column of water rose eight or ten feet and then fell 
back again, and some minutes elapsed before the force of the explosion 
emptied the hole, and the burnt glycerine, mud and sand rushed up 
in the derrick in a black stream; the blackness gradually changed to 
yellow. Then with a mighty roar the gas burst forth. The noise 
was deafening. It was like the loosing of a thunderbolt. For a 
moment the cloud of gas hid the derrick from sight, and then as it 
cleared away a solid golden column, half a foot in diameter shot 
from the derrick floor eighty feet through the air, till it broke in 
fragments on the crown pulley and fell in a shower of yellow rain 
for rods around. For over an hour that grand column of oil, rushing 
swifter than any torrent, and straight as a mountain pine, united 


















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Petroleum Chronology for 1884. 


derrick floor and top. In a few moments the ground around the 
derrick was covered inches deep with petroleum; the branches of the 
oak trees were like huge yellow plumes, and a stream as large as a 
man’s body ran down the hill to the road, where it filled the space 
beneath the small bridge at that place, and continuing down the hill 
through the woods beyond spread out upon the flats where the John¬ 
son well stands. In two hours these flats were covered with a flood 
of oil; the hillside was as if a yellow freshet had passed over it; heavy 
clouds of gas, almost obscuring the derrick, hung low in the woods, 
and still that mighty rush of oil continued. Those who had at first 
estimated it at 50, 150 or 200 barrels an hour, raised their figures to 
300 or 400, and some to 500 an hour. Dams were built across the 
stream that its production might be estimated, and the dams over¬ 
flowed and were swept away before they could be completed. Where 
it swept the flats a couple of boards were set up on edge, and the 
stream turned between them, and it filled the space and ran over the 
sides. People living along Thorn Creek packed up their household 
goods and fled to the hillsides. The pump station, a mile and a half 
down the creek Irom the well, had to extinguish its fires that night 
on account of the gas and oil, and all fires around the district were 
put out. It was literally a flood of oil. There is no one now who 
saw it, but that estimates the well made over 500 barrels an hour 
from two o’clock till four; and that it made over 8,000, some say 
10,000 barrels the first twenty-four hours after being shot. It was as 
if the whole production of the Allegany field was pouring out of a 
single well, and flowing down the hill-side. The casing-head was on 
and the tools with the oil saver hung in the derrick; but it was a 
terrible place to put men in. Mr. Denniston, the foreman, while 
endeavoring to get the tools in the hole, was overcome by the gas 
and fell under the bull wheels. He was rescued immediately and 
carried to a driller’s shanty and medical aid summoned. For two 
hours he remained unconscious, but was able to be at work again the 
next day. The owners offered 8300 to any men who would turn the 
oil into the tanks. Ed. Clark, Pat Conners, Billy Gardner and Mark 
Larkins, undertook the job of shutting in the largest well ever struck 
in the oil region. The packer for the oil saver was tied on at the 
bull wheel shaft, the tools placed over the bole and run in. JBut 
when the cap of the oil saver reached within two feet of the casing 
head, the pressure of the solid stream of oil against it prevented its 
going lower, even with the suspended weight of the two thousand 
pound tools. Two long levers were then obtained and put one on 
each side of the oil saver. The ends were fastened at one side of the 
derrick, and pressure applied to the other ends until the cap was 
slowly forced into position, and the s*T screws turned on it. The 
weight necessary to do this, including the tools hanging to the saver 
must have been nearly 3,000 pounds. A casing connection and tub¬ 
ing lines connected the well with the gas tank. From the top of the 
tank were two gas escapes standing twenty feet high, and eight two 
inch lines were filled full, and two streams of oil shot up through the 
gas escapes higher than the derrick, resembling two streams playing 
from a fire engine. It was late in the afternoon before the well was 
shut in, and no accurate gauges could be obtained on it. One man 




Petroleum Chronology for 1884 


13 


claims 100 inches in a 600 barrel tank in a little more than an hour, 
or about 425 barrels. For over one hundred feet around the well the 
ground was covered to a depth of several inches with the yellow 
crude; the trees were loaded with it, and it dripped from their branches 
for days afterward. The mixture of the salt water with the oil gave 
it a bright coloring, so that the ground and trees where it fell were 
of a rich orange hue, while the derrick, being spotted with the fresh 
oil from the gas escapes, was of a brilliant golden color. Looking at 
the well and its near surroundings through the woods, it was as if the 
bright sunshine was falling through the trees and flooding with light 

this particular spot.28th. Armstrong making 400 barrels an hour. 

.29th. Armstrong making 260 barrels an hour.30th. Arm¬ 
strong making 230 barrels an hour.31st. Armstrong making 

210 barrels an hour. 

November 1st. Phillips No. 1, shot, with little improvement. 

Armstrong making 203 barrels an hour.3d. Christie No. 2 in sand, 

and poor showing.6th. Fisher No. 12 makes a flow of oil from 

top of sand, causing a little scare. The well afterwards proves to be 

small.9th. Gibson No. 1 shot, and starts at 70 barrels an hour. 

.10th. Christie No. 2, shot, and no response.12th. Fisher 

No. 6 starts at 500 barrels a day and improves.13th. Fisher No. 

3, after having been drilled through the sand a week, is torpedoed; 
it reacts after fifteen minutes and starts at over 300 barrels an hour. 

.14th. Greenlee & Co.’s well begins flowing, making 180 barrels 

an hour. Doods well makes a flow.19th. Conners No. 2 starts 

flowing largely.21st. Phillips No. 5 is a surprise by starting at 

150 barrels an hour after market closes, but is off again in the morn¬ 
ing to 80 barrels an hour.24th. Gibson No. 2 is shot and does 

not respond for four hours, when it makes 150 barrels an hour. 

26th. The fieldmen watch over the Simpson well on the Kenndey 
farm, which is in the sand.27th. Fisher No. 1 shot, but no re¬ 
sponse from it.28th. Simpson well gets a fishing job. 

December 1st. Greenlee No. 1 making 40 barrels an hour when 
the morning’s gauge is taken, and ceases to flow at 5 o’clock in the 

afternoon.2d. Armstiong No. 2 making 24 barrels an hour at 8 

a. m., and stops flowing three hours afterwards. McBride’s well, on 
Scully farm, half a mile in advance of operations, on top of sand, 

and the public kept out of the derrick.3d. Fisher No. 1, which 

has been pumping a week, starts flowing at 60 barrels an hour. 

4th. Gibson No. 2 stops flowing.5th. Market breaks on reports 

of good sand having been found in the McBride well.10th. Boyd 

well starts at 160 barrels an hour.11th. McBride and the Simp¬ 

son wells go through the sand. Parker well, dt Kinzua, reported as a 

mystery.12th. Preparations made to shoot McBride well. It is 

full of salt water and has no show of oil. It is shot at 3 p. m. and 

starts at 380 barrels an hour. Simpson well is shot.13th. The 

market breaks at opening on account of McBride well, but is sustained 

by Standard buyers.15th. Torpedo put in Fisher No. 8, but no 

response from it.16th. Fisher No. 8 starts flowing at 125 barrels 

an hour.19th. Fisher No. 8 catches fire.25th. Fire at Fisher 

No. 8 extinguished.27th. Boyd well stops producing.30th. 

Greenlee well stops producing for the second time.31st. Boyd 

well begins producing again, starting at 106 barrels an hour. 



































PETROLEUM STATISTICS. 


Market Quotations at Oil City in 1884. 

Note.—d., Date; o., Opening; h., Highest; l., Lowest; c., Closing. 


1884. 
JANUARY. 




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12 

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L. C. 

13 


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Market Quotations for 1884 


15 


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8 

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98 

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9 

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31 

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81 

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OCTOBER. 


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16 Market Quotations for 1884. 


D. | 

0. 

H. 

L. 

c. 

D. 

21 

68'} 

75 

681 

711 

13 

22 

711 

75 

69 

72|i 

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15 

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29 

69 

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21 

30 

71 1 

75 

71f 

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25 







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26 

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721 1 
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29 

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3 

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lllgliest and Lowest Price for United Uertlti 
cates for tlie years named : 


TEAR. 


1875 . 

1876. 

1877. 

1878. 
1879 
1880, 
1881 , 
1882 

1883 

1884 


DATE. 

HIGH’ST DATE. 

LOWEST 

Feb. 

8 

$1.82] July 

16 

$0.70 

Dec. 

12 

4.23] Jan. 

3 

1.47] 

Jan. 

15 

3.71] Dec. 

31 

1.57] 

Feb. 

4 

1.87] Sept. 

27 

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Dec. 

2 

1.28] June 

16 

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22 

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21 

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21 

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19 

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6 

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6 

0.49] 

June 

1 

1.24] Jan. 

4 

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Jan .3,7,8 

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Date. 

high’t. 

LOWEST 

January . 

221 

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211 

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191 

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191 

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191 

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191 191 

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ERRATUM. 


The average price of oil for 1884 was 831 cents instead 
of $1.02f, as given on page 19, second edition. 


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Average Price of Certificates 1878-84 


19 


Average Price of Certificates for the years named 


1878 

1879 

1880 

1881 

1882 

1883 

1884 

January. 

$1.43} 

$1.02} 

$1.10 

$0.93} 

$0.83} 

$0.89} 

$1.11} 

February. 

1.661 

.97} 

1.021 

.89} 

.85 

1.01} 

1.04} 

March. 

1.58| 

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.81 

• 97} 

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April. 

1.36| 

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.76} 

.88} 

.78} 

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• 94i 

Mav. 

1.35 

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.81} 

• 70} 

.99} 

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June . 

1.13| 

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1.00} 

• 811 

.52} 

1.174 

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July. 

.98| 

• 67} 

.96; 

.76} 

.57£ 

1.17} 

.63} 

August . 

1.01 ^ 

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.88} 

.78} 

.59} 

1.08| 

.81} 

September . 

.86} 

•69| 

.85} 

.92} 

.74 

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• 79| 

October. 

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• 92| 

• 93| 

1.184 

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November. 

• 92} 

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.82} 

1.14} 

1.14} 

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December. 

,95| 

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.84 

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1.14} 

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Field Developments for 1884. 


The following table exhibits each month’s operations for the year 
1884: 



RIGS. 

dri’g. 

TOTAL 

COMP. 

PROD. 

DRY. 

January . 

169 

270 

439 

229 

3,134 

21 

February . 

173 

273 

446 

227 

3,951 

6 

March. 

215 

268 

483 

265 

4,126 

24 

April. 

205 

285 

490 

298 

3,698 

26 

May. 

159 

244 

403 

311 

5,748 

29 

June. 

69 

151 

220 

268 

4,694 

37 

July . 

55 

124 

179 

164 

9,728 

22 

August. 

59 

91 

150 

145 

3,288 

23 

September. 

44 

79 

123 

89 

3,714 

17 

October.. 

32 

98 

130 

60 

9,721 

17 

November. 

25 

86 

111 

73 

6,381 

23 

December. 

48 

78 

126 

66 

6,112 

11 

Total. 


2,195 

64,295 

256 


During the year 2,195 wells were completed, which added a new 
production of 64,295 barrels, an amount greater than the total daily 
production at the end of the year. This is accounted for by most 
of the wells being completed in the uncertain white sand pools where 
a rapid decrease takes place. In 1884 also 256 dry holes were com¬ 
pleted, representing a bare loss of about $384,000. 




























































































20 


Field Developments for 1884 . 


In the following table is exhibited the wells completed, new pro¬ 
duction and dry holes, and average production per well, for the last 
nine years: 


WELLS. 

PROD. 

DRY. 

AY. PROD. 

1876 . 

. 2,319 

27,302 

329 

11.3 

1877 . 

. 4,056 

54,366 

657 

13.4 

1878 . 

. 2,988 

40,535 

373 

13.5 

1879 . 

. 2,798 

67,247 

141 

24.0 

1880 . 

. 4,203 

105,075 

143 

25.0 

1881 . 

. 3,848 

77,439 

167 

20.1 

1882 . 

. 3,263 

114,155 

178 

35.0 

1883 . 

. 2,949 

45,338 

263 

15.4 

1884 . 

. 2,195 

64,295 

256 

29.2 

Total. 

. 28,619 

595,752 

2,507 



In the last nine years 28,619 wells have been completed in the oil 
country, an average per year of 3,179 Tvells. In the same time 2,507 
dry holes were drilled, which may be estimated as showing a grand 
total loss of $1,500 to each well, or a total of $3,760,500. 

v BRADFORD. 

The operations in Bradford in 1884 show a considerable decrease, 
as compared with previous years. Part of this is due to lack of terri¬ 
tory and low prices, but the shut-down movement was entered into 
in this field with more earnestness than elsewhere, and caused the 
suspension of the drill. The table below gives the operations each 
month for the year 1884: 



RIGS 

DRG 

TOTAL 

COMP. 

PROD. 

DRY 

January. 

63 

84 

147 

72 

777 

0 

February. 

50 

80 

130 

72 

778 

0 

March. 

64 

84 

148 

90 

973 

1 

April. 

62 

77 

139 

95 

988 

1 

May. 

29 

63 

92 

87 

1,235 

5 

June. 

13 

32 

45 

69 

1,245 

O 

O 

duly. 

7 

22 

29 

32 

564 

2 

August. 

/ 

14 

21 

21 

330 

4 

September. 

5 

8 

13 

12 

284 

1 

October. 

5 

12 

17 

8 

183 

1 

November. 

5 

10 

15 

13 

230 

2 

December. 

3 

11 

14 

5 

46 

0 

Total for 1884. 




576 

1,633 

20 

“ 1883. 




772 

9,335 


“ 1882. 




859 

73,281 


“ 1881. 




2,847 

61,855 


“ 1880. 




3,803 

101,911 


“ 1879. 




2,460 

64,061 


“ 1878. 




2,026 

31,773 




















































































Field Developments for 1884 . 


21 


ALLEGANY. 

In Allegany, as in Bradford, the producers ceased work, as the 
following table of operations for the year shows: 



RIGS. 

dri’g 

TOTAL 

COMP. 

PROD. 

DRY 

January. 

48 

83 

131 

72 

656 

5 

February . 

57 

72 

129 

76 

762 

1 

March. 

54 

73 

127 

62 

612 

1 

April. 

51 

71 

122 

80 

773 

5 

May. 

30 

52 

82 

79 

781 

7 

June. 

14 

22 

36 

55 

462 

5 

July. 

6 

18 

24 

22 

181 

3 

August. 

7 

10 

17 

16 

115 

3 

September. 

4 

11 

15 

10 

77 

1 

October. 

2 

15 

17 

7 

52 

3 

November. 

3 

12 

15 

11 

41 

4 

December. 

3 

9 

12 

7 

34 

2 

Total for 1884. 




497 

1,287 

1,590 

563 

4,546 

13,886 

37,932 

13,372 

40 

“ 1883. 

“ 1882. 

“ 1881. 


COOPER, INCLUDING HENRY’S MILLS. 

The operations in Cooper and vicinity for the year, are given in 
the following table: 


January. 

February . 

March. 

April. 

May. 

June. 

duly . 

August . 

September.... 

October. 

November. 

December. 

Total for 1884 
“ 1883 


Decrease 


RIGS. | DRI’G. 

TOTAL 

COMP. 

1 

PROD. 

DRY 

14 i 10 

24 

7 

560 


8 26 

34 

16 

1,515 


10 ! 20 

30 

24 

1,563 

i 

7 23 

30 

18 

640 

1 

9 17 

26 

21 

578 

1 

5 

5 

23 

492 

5 

1 | 1 

2 

5 

120 

1 

2 

2 

1 

10 

... 

... 

... 

2 


2 

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117 

5,478 

11 • 


158 

9'326 



41 

3,848 





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22 


Field Developments for 1884 . 


BALLTOWN. 

In 1884, Emery & Agnew found a good well on lot 3195, east of 
the other producing wells, and this caused some work to be done there 
throughout the year, though it was small. The operations for the 
year were as follows: 



RIGS. 

dri’g. 

TOTAL 

COMP. 

PROD. 

DRY 

January. 

1 

5 

6 

4 

57 

1 

February. 

2 

3 

5 

4 

230 


March. 

5 

3 

8 

3 

150 

... 

April. 

3 

4 

7 

5 

194 

• • • 

May. 

5 

3 

8 

10 

330 

• • • 

June. 

4 

5 

9 

2 

400 


July. 

0 

5 

5 

8 

890 

1 

August. 

2 

3 

5 

3 

80 

... 

September. 

3 

0 

3 

3 

80 

... 

October . 

0 

2 

2 




November. 

0 

] 

1 

1 


1 

December . 




1 

15 


Total for 1884. 




49 

2,426 

3 

“ 1883. 




75 

7,267 


Decrease. 



. 

26 

4,841 



WAEDWELL. 


This pool, north ol Warren, was discovered in March, and de¬ 
velopments were nearly completed in August. Wardwell operations 
for the year were as follows : 



RIGS. 

dri’g. 

TOTAL 

COMP. 

PROD. 

DRY 

January. 

• • • 




••••••••• 


February. 

• • • 

... 

... 


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March. 

13 

4 

17 

12 

323 

5 

April. 

6 

12 

18 

7 

24 

4 

May. 

11 

9 

20 

14 

1,565 

7 

.J une. 

1 

6 

7 

11 

1,280 

3 

J uly. 

14 

32 

46 

37 

7,285 

1 

August. 

9 

22 

31 

52 

2,358 

1 

September. 

... 

2 

o 

64 

30 

695 

3 

October. 

... 

1 

1 

2 

27 


November. 

December . 

... 

• . • 

• • • 

1 

20 

••••••••• 


Total for the year. 




166 

13,577 

24 


Average of wells.'..81.8 barrels 




































































































23 


Field Developments for 1884 . 


THORN CREEK. 

Just as Ward well was waning, the phenomenal field of Thorn 
Creek, in Butler County, was struck. The operations in this district 
have been as follows: 



RIGS. 

dri’g. 

TOTAL 

COMP. 

PROD. 

DRY 

September. 

6 

22 

28 

3 

2,415 

• • • 

October. 

12 

33 

45 

10 

9,197 

2 

November. 

3 

30 

33 

19 

6,013 

4 

December. 

26 

29 

55 

17 

5,785 

1 

Total for year . 




49 

23.410 

7 


Average of wells.477.7 barrels 


OUTSIDE DISTRICTS. 

Aside from the fields mentioned above there are many smaller 
and older districts, to which little attention is paid, but which have 
an aggregate production of about 10,000 darrels a day. In this is 
included Clarion, Tiona, Kinzua, Tidioute, Glade and the little pools 
in Warren County, Egypt, Emlenton, Byrom Centre, Bullion, Oil 
Creek and outlying pools in Venango, and Clarion Counties, and all of 
Butler outside of Thorn Creek and Baldridge. The operations in all 
these outside districts for the year were as follows: 



RIGS. 

dri’g. 

TOTAL 

COMP. 

PROD. 

DRY 

January. 

43 

88 

131 

74 

1,084 

15 

February . 

56 

92 

148 

59 

666 

5 

March. 

55 

84 

149 

74 

505 

16 

April. 

75 

98 

173 

93 

1,083 

13 

May. 

75 

100 

175 

100 

1,259 

8 

June. 

35 

81 

118 

103 

815 

19 

J uly. 

27 

46 

73 

60 

688 

14 

August . 

34 

40 

74 

52 

396 

15 

September. 

26 

36 

62 

31 

163 

11 

October. 

13 

35 

48 

31 

262 

11 

November .•.. 

14 

33 

47 

28 

77 

12 

December. 

16 

28 

44 

36 

242 

8 

Total . 




741 

7,240 

147 


Average of wells 


7.9 barrels 






































































24 


Shipments and Charters for 1882-4. 


Shipments from the Oil Regions 188*2, 1883 and 

1884, in Barrels. 



1882 

1883 

1884 

January. 

1,757,067 

1,358,200 

1,686,621 

February . 

1,787,909 

1,241.877 

1,723,260 

March . 

1,731,605 

1,634,844 

1,873,890 

April . 

1,707,928 

1,908,379 

1,643,336 

May. 

1,827,357 

1,993,746 

1,899,330 

June. 

2,215,685 

1,747,475 

1,977,501 

July. 

2,403,383 

1,634,407 

1,872,819 

August. 

2,047,936 

2,086 237 

2,101,627 

September. 

1,992,042 

2,327,574 

2,293,247 

October. 

2,089,204 

2,220,365 

2,515,466 

November. 

1,404,640 

2,064,985 

2,084,746 

December. 

1,129,453 

1,749,547 

2,382,059 

Totals. 

22,094,799 

21,967,836 

25,053,902 

Monthly average. 

1,841,233 

1,830,653 

2,087,825 


Charters tor 1883 and 1884. 


January... 

February.. 

March. 

April. 

May. 

June. 

July. 

August. 

September 

October.... 

November. 

December. 


1883 


684,766 

711,291 

922,973 

1,210,348 

1,533,603 

1,393,450 

1,196,087 

1,525,814 

1,384,403 

1,422,259 

759,030 

907,856 


Total 


13,651,880 


Monthly Average. 


1884 


952,008 

738,272 

950,190 

1,005,550 

1,594,780 

1,313,289 

1,655,243 

1,499,854 

1,520,573 

1,215,821 

1,200,134 

880,318 


14,526,032 


1,137,656 1,210,502 



















































































Pipe-Line Runs, 1884 . 


25 


Pipe Line Runs, 1884. 





Total Runs. 

Daily Av. 

January. 



1,804,329 

58,204 

February. 



1,873,432 

64,601 

March.. 



2,003,092 

64,616 

April. 



1,974,518 

65,802 

May. 



2,069,513 

66,757 

June. 



2,020,710 

67,357 

July. 



2,069,881 

66,770 

August. 



2,077,983 

67,031 

September. 



1,978,760 

65,958 

October. 



1,955,190 

63,071 

November ... 



1,855,299 

61,843 

December. 



1,914,238 

61,749 

Total 1884 .. 



23,596,945 

64,472 

Total 1883., 



24,385,966 

66,811 

Decrease. 



789,021 

2,339 

PIPE-LINE RUNS BY DISTRICTS, 1884 

-Bbls. 


Bradford. 




Nat. Transit. 

Tidewater. 

Total.i 

Daily Av. 

January. 

772,116 

189,514 

961,630 

31,020 

February . 

791,924 

193,712 

985,636 

33,987 

March . 

819,683 

204,841 

1,024,524 

33,049 

April. 

826,964 

204,135 

1,031,099 

34,369 

May. 

878,823 

204,521 

1,083,344 

34,946 

June. 

870,003 

201,027 

1,071,030 

35,700 

J uly. 

886,528 

189,744 

1,076,272 

34,718 

August. 

883,369 

163,897 

1,047,266 

33,782 

September. 

851,878 

151,617 

1,003,495 

33,449 

October. 

824,287 

152,212 

976,499 

31,499 

November. 

747,470 

139,101 

886,571 

29,551 

December. 

801,800 

147,784 

949,584 

30,631 

Total, 1884... 

9,954,845 

2,142,105 

12,096,950 

33,051 

Total, 1883... 



13,436,426 

36,812 

Decrease. 



1,339,476 

3,761 


Allegany. 




Nat. Transit. 

Tidewater. 

Total. 

Daily A v. 

January. 

254,743 

86,804 

341,547 

10,372 

February . 

268,601 

80,142 

348,743 

12,025 

March. 

269,608 

95,489 

365,097 

11,777 

April .*.. 

274,498 

93,339 

367,837 

12,261 

May. 

279,462 

98,526 

377,988 

12,193 

June. 

259,077 

91,085 

350,162 

11,672 

July. 

258,795 

85,739 

344,534 

11,114 

August. 

244,496 

77,402 

321,898 

10,383 



















































26 


Pipe-Line Runs by Districts, 1884 


Allegany—Continued. 


September. 

October. 

November. 

December. 

Nat. Transit. 
226,948 
203,800 
195,792 
190,312 

Tidewater. 

72,714 

69,064 

63,473 

63,674 

Total. 

299,662 

272,864 

259,265 

253,986 

Daily Av. 
9,988 
8,802 
8,642 
8,193 

Total, 1884... 

2,926,132 

977,451 

3,903,583 

10,655 

Total, 1883... 



4,757,628 

13,034 

Decrease. 



854,045 

2,379 


Lower District—Butler, Clarion, Venango, &c. 



Nat. Transit. 

Outside Buns. 

Total. 

Daily A v. 

January. 

172,522 

18,879 

191,401 

6,174 

February . 

181,701 

17,322 

199,023 

6,862 

March. 

196,217 

19,064 

215,281 

6,944 

April. 

187,998 

21,763 

209,761 

6,992 

May. 

206,507 

21,297 

227,804 

7,348 

June. 

202,291 

16,133 

218,424 

7,280 

July. 

202,218 

14,398 

216,616 

6,987 

August. 

206,415 

14,024 

220,439 

7,110 

September. 

178,895 

10,374 

189,269 

6,308 

October. 

175,280 

11,568 

186,848 

6,027 

November. 

167,407 

10,992 

178,399 

5,946 

December. 

190,563 

10,580 

201,143 

6,490 

Total, 1884... 
Total, 1883... 

2,268,014 

186,394 

2,454,408 

6,706 



2,362,585 

6,472 


Increase. 91,823 234 

Warren County, Except Ward well, Clierry 
Grove and Cooper. 


January . 

February . 

March . 

April. 

May. 

June. 

July. 

August. 

September. 

October. 

November. 

December. 

Total, 1884 

Total, 1883 


Total Runs. 

Daily Av. 

84,674 

2,731 

93,331 

3,218 

107,584 

3,470 

102,077 

3,402 

112,708 

3,635 

107,877 

3,595 

101,096 

3,261 

107,549 

3,469 

110,338 

3,677 

111,000 

3,580 

87,791 

2,926 

93,495 

. 3,016 

1,219,520 

3,332 

768,388 

2,105 

451,132 

1,227 


Increase 





















































Pipe-Line Runs by Districts, 1884 


27 


Cooper Tract, Including Henry’s Mills. 


January. 

February . 

March. 

April. 

May. 

June. 

July. 

August. 

September. 

October. 

November. 

December.. 

Total, 1884.. 

Total, 1883. 

Decrease. 

■fa III own. 


January. 

February. 

March . . 

April. 

May. 

June. 

July. 

August. 

September. 

October. 

November... 

December.,. 

Total, 1884. 

Total, 1883. . 

Increase. 

Cherry Grove. 


January ... 
February.. 

March . 

April. 

May. 

June. 

July.. 

August. 

September 
October .... 


Total Buns. 

Daily Av. 

90,145 

2,908 

108,543 

3,742 

143,571 

4,631 

126,860 

4,228 

107,514 

3,468 

89,554 

2,985 

76,762 

2,476 

63,415 

2,045 

64,648 

2,155 

47,637 

1,536 

39,066 

1,302 

38,621 

1,246 

996,336 

2,722 

1,095,557 

3,001 

99,221 

279 


Total Buns. 

Daily Av. 

87,061 

2,808 

81,649 

2,815 

87,193 

2,813 

71,989 

2,899 

70,069 

2,260 

67,508 

2,250 

76,601 

2,471 

67,883 

2,186 

63,453 

2,115 

55,211 

1,781 

42,025 

1,400 

36,864 

1,189 

807,506 

2,206 

776,244 

2,126 

31,262 

80 


Total Buns. 

Daily A v. 

23,787 

‘ 767 

28,062 

967 

31,020 

1,000 

31,191 

1,039 

30,010 

968 

25,348 

844 

16,206 

523 

20,615 

665 

19,591 

653 

13,824 

446 


















































28 


Pipe-Line Runs by Districts, 1884. 


Cherry Grove- 

—Continued. 





Total Runs. 

Daily Av. 

November. 



12,689 

422 

December. 



12,600 

406 

Total, 1884... 



264,943 

724 

Total, 1883... 



755,221 

2,069 

Decrease. 



490,278 

1,345 

Thorn 

Creek, Including 

Baldridge 

• 




Total Runs. 

Daily Av. 

September. 



79,324 

2,644 

October. 



187,068 

6,043 

November. 



284,806 

9,493 

December. 



270,643 

8,730 

Total. 



821,841 

6,735 


Ward well. 






Total Runs. 

Daily Av. 

April. 



14,263 

475 

May. 



31.451 

1,015 

June. 



61,260 

2,042 

July. 



132,595 

4,277 

August. 



200,985 

6,483 

September. 



121,683 

4,056 

October. 



68,256 

2,201 

November. 



40,376 

1,346 

December . 



30,357 

979 

Total. 



701,226 

2,550 

Tidioute and Titusville, 

Including Octave IHst. 

Nat. Transit. 

Octave. 

Total. 

Daily A v. 

January. 

21,394 

2,689 

24,083 

Ill 

February. 

25,816 

2,629 

28,445 

980 

March . 

25,750 

3,072 

28,822 

929 

April. 

24,947 

2,676 

27,623 

920 

May. 

25,504 

3,122 

28,626 

923 

June. 

25,484 

2,719 

28,203 

940 

July. 

25,935 

3,262 

29,197 

942 

August. 

25,212 

2,721 

27,933 

901 

September. 

24,946 

2,488 

27,434 

914 

October. 

25,440 

2,980 

28,420 

916 

November. 

22,867 

2,582 

25,449 

848 

December. 

24,182 

3,047 

27,229 

878 

Total, 1884. 

297,477 

34,087 

331,564 

905 

Total, 1883. 



365,513 

1,001 

Decrease. 



33,949 

96 



















































Pipe-Line Stocks, 1883-1884. 


29 


Pfpe-Une Slocks, 1883-1884. 


1883. 1884. 

January . 34,952,652 35,834,930 

February. 35,514,922 36,041,914 

March . 35,594,681 36,206,626 

April. 35,500,859 37,726,877 

May. 35,612,245 38 475,528 

June . 35,984,227 38,665,848 

July. 36,371,939 38,986,248 

August. 36,103,923 39,083,464 

September. 35,752,719 38,740,722 

October. 35,617,087 38,123,745 

November . 35,495,236 37,857,193 

December. 35,715,565 36,872,892 


Amount of Oil Represented by Outstanding 

Certificates. 

1883. 1884. 


January 31 . 26,424,945.50 27,668,523.25 

February 28. 26,618,762.40 27,920,564.75 

March 31. 25,853,292.32 27,410,614.25 

April 30. 25,393,241.53 28,390,000.00 

May 31. 27,084,933.67 29,285,000.00 

June 30. 28,591,100.76 29,603,038.60 

July 31. 27.873,375.77 29,320,587.00 

August 31. 27,937,602.52 30,379,998.80 

September 30. 27,736,393.02 29,721,715.30 

October 31. 27,623,847.75 28,652,312.00 

November 30. 28,307,351.75 28,594,995.90 

December 31. 28.603,136.25 28,181,375.24 


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32 


Macksrurg Field. 


Hacksburg (Ohio) Fi<*l<l. 


The operations in the Macksbnrg, Ohio, field, for 1884, were as 


follows : 

Rigs. 

Dri'g. 

Total. 

Comp. 

New 

Pro’n. 

Dry. 

January. 

February. 

March. 

April. 

. 13 

4 

17 

6 

148 


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18 

26 

7 

60 

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15 

28 

7 

91 

1 

August.. 

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8 

20 

12 

99 

5 

September. 

. 15 

15 

30 

3 

35 

1 

October. 

. 9 

16 

25 

8 

115 

4 

November. 

. 17 

16 

33 

9 

184 

1 

December . 

. 19 

29 

48 

5 

78 

1 

Total. 




5 1 

810 

14 


PIPE LINE RUNS. 

The receipts from the Macksbnrg wells for each month, by the 
Ohio Transit and United Lines, were as follows, and nearly repre¬ 
sent the production : 


Total Receipts. 


January. 2,670 

February. 1,484 

March. 2,651 

April. 3,399 

May. 4,230 

June. 6,324 

July. 7,726 

August . 8,004 

September. 10,022 

October. 10,856 

November. 12,934 

December. 9,781 


Daily A v. 
86 
51 
85 
113 
136 
210 
249 
258 
334 
350 
431 
315 


Total 


80,081 


219 


Total runs. 80,081 

Received by W. Va. Transportation Co. 3,500 

Increased stock at wells. 10,000 


Macksburg’s total production in 1884. 93,581 

Daily average. . 283 
































































Foreign Stocks 


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Foreign Stocks. 

The visible supply of refined Petroleum, barrels, on January 1st, 
1885, in the seven Continental, London and Liverpool, was as fol¬ 
lows, with comparative figures for same date in 1884: 


January 1st, 1885—Stock. 1,047,054 

Afloat. 307,566 

Loading. 116,300 

Total January .1st, 1885. 1,470,920 

January 1st, 1884, total barrels... 2,093,501 


Decrease. 622,581 


Total stocks January 1st, 1883, barrels, 1,890,144. 

The deliveries of the seven principal ports of Europe, London and 
Liverpool, in 1884, as compared with 1883, were: 



Deliveries from 
January to Dec. 31. 

Increase 

Bremen. 

Hamburg. 

Antwerp. 

Other four principal ports. 

1883. 

. 941,128 

. 976,434 

. 845,554 

. 785,808 

1884. 

1,010,000 

1,096,767 

1,033.678 

866,645 

69,072 

120,333 

188,124 

80,837 

Europe, seven ports. 

London. 

Liverpool. 

.3,548,924 

. 574,664 

. 239,838 

4,700,290 

603,366 

260,175 

458,366 

28,702 

20,337 

Total. 

. 4,363,426 

5,563,831 

497,405 


RUSSIAN PETROLEUM. 

BradstreeV s says of Petroleum in Russia: “The Economical Re¬ 
sources of Russia and their Importance, Present and Future,” by 
Friedrich Mattbai (Dresden, 1883-85), contains tables showing the 
production, importation and consumption of petroleum in Russia 
for 1872-80, as follows: 



Production. 

Imports. 

Consumption. 


Puds* 

Puds. 

Puds. 

1872. 

. 518,546 

1,790,335 

2,308,881 

1873. 

. 1,254,441 

2,701,143 

3,955,581 

1874. 

. 1,460,596 

2,524,101 

3,984,757 

1875. 

. 2,227,704 

2,653,126 

4,880,830 

1876. 

. 3,145,075 

2,662,486 

5,779,893 

1877. 

. 4,640,195 

1,701,502 

6,325,061 

1878. 

. 6,285,133 

1,989,835 

8,229,786 

1879. 

. 6,562,140 

1,719,454 

8,281,594 

1880. 

. 8,297,733 

1,463,409 

9,763,142 

1884f. 

. 16,000,000 

11,500,000 

14,500,000 


*One pud equal to 32.76 pounds. tEstimated. tExports. 









































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Foreign Stocks 


While in 1872 68.3 per cent, of the mineral oil used in Russia had 
to be imported from abroad, and, whereas, in 1875 still more oil had 
to be imported than was produced in Russia, this proportion has been 
entirely inverted since 1876, and in 1880, 85 per cent, of the petroleum 
used in Russia was the home product. According to Noble Brothers’ 
reports they shipped from May 1st to end of October, 1884, 9,800,000 
puds. Now, this house is said to produce 55 per cent, of the total 
produced in the Caucasus, which therefore would amount to about 
16,000,000 puds. Subtracting about 1,500,000 puds which might 
have been exported, there would have been left to home consump¬ 
tion 14,500,000 puds. Even if the consumption should have in¬ 
creased in the years 1881 to 1884 at about the same rate as from 1870 
to 1880, namely, 1,500,000 puds yearly, the 14,500,000 puds would 
suffice for home use. Of course we must suppose the reports of 
Noble Brothers to be correct, but even should the numbers have been 
quoted rather high, it is evident that the Caucasian product is suffi¬ 
cient for home consumption. 

Tliorn Creek Production. 


The daily production of the Thorn Creek district, as based on 
the morning’s gauges taken by the Fieldmen’s Club, for the months 
named, has been as follows: 


Tinio 

Nov. 

Dec. 

Jan. 

Feb. 

Mar. 


Prod. 

Prod. 

Prod. 

Prod 

Prod. 

1. 

. 9,364 

7,859 

8,050 

6,300 

7,200 

2 

. 8,849 

7,349 

7,000 

6,063 

7,077 

3. 

. 8,218 

6.968 

6,664 

6,104 

6,881 

4. 

. 9,677 

6,691 

6,225 

5,936 

6,780 

5. 

. 8,243 

5,989 

6,851 

7,166 

7,296 

6. 

. 7.144 

6,319 

5,662 

7,256 

7,588 

/. 

. 6,982 

6,100 

5,664 

7,095 

7,300 

8. 

. 6,888 

5,768 

5,382 

7,100 

7,200 

9. 

. 7,046 

5,766 

5,670 

7,202 

7,029 

10. 

. 7,043 

5,676 

5,602 

6,220 

6,519 

11. 

. 6,418 

8,952 

5,684 

5,648 

7,565 

12. 

. 6,349 

7,789 

5,628 

5,875 

7,146 

13. 

. 7,046 

14,264 

5,344 

5,955 

10,023 

14. 

. 10,486 

11,200 

5,396 

5,944 

9,100 

15. 

. 15,644 

10,947 

5,074 

6,000 

8,600 

16. 

. 13,436 

10,249 

5,324 

7,645 

8,057 

17. 

. 11,674 

11,080 

5,580 

7,347 

8,138 

18. 

. 11,035 

11,259 

5,220 

7,369 

7,121 

19. 

. 9,977 

9,715 

4,722 

7,180 

6,623 

20. 

. 10,221 

8,532 

4,818 

8,540 

7,092 

21. 

. 12,651 

7,500 

4,593 

7,944 

6,894 

22 . 

. 10,649 

7,010 

5,125 

7,800 

6,650 

23.. 

. 9,825 

7,140 

4,735 

7,950 

6,445 

24. 

. 9,225 

6,402 

4,618 

8,165 

6,019 

25. 

. 9,980 

6,300 

5,015 

7,460 

6,076 

26. 

. 8,808 

7,140 

5,148 

7,821 

5,561 































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Thorn Creek Production. 



Nov. 

Dec. 

Jan. 

Feb. 

Mar. 


Prod. 

Prod. 

Prod. 

prod. 

Prod. 

27. 

9,188 

8,892 

4,938 

7,493 

5,464 

28. 

8,818 

8,000 

4,815 

7,337 

5,865 

29. 

8,249 

7,512 

5,953 



30. 

7,950 

6 721 

6 695 



31. 

8,350 

6,950 








Total. 

.274,392 

249,345 

174,190 

195,915 


Daily average.. 

9 140 

8,043 

5,612 

6,996 
























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